UPTO HERE

It has been a joyous journey filled with a beehive of activities, including the recent gruesome murder of Gadaffi.But lets ot go there. for now and forever. Among the most notable, is the JKUAT Tech expo, 'My Trip to Botswana' , SCOSIT Hackathon and the list is literally endless. It so happened that it was my first techexpo to attend as yet it is usually hosted at my campus annually due to my indifference. Even our folks come from the west and they go for safaris at our local parks while most of us who are born,raised,attain maturity and even some would die without ever setting foot on these parks. I would call that mediocrity. The Expo was outsatnding with presentations from various categories that had been subdivide into five categories but most inclined on the techy side. Anyway, there is no other side to deal in as of this 21st century, is there? ' My trip to Botswana' is a great story that was told to me by a representative from our Wikimedia Kenya Unchapter who had gone to give some training about editing the Setswana wikipedia It was a very pleasant experince to my ears and i felt that I had achieved in a way. if not for listenng to the succes story, at least for the few things that i helped with to make the trip a tremendous success.

Wikipedia is a culture

Mission Kabarak

Like any other second week into the semester, there is no much to be done at campus other than the now popular ‘drift mode’. Guys also take this as the time to go for ‘academic’ trips to the coastal city, Mombasa and unambiguously the goldmines of Mtwapa. I was given an eleventh hour option to choose between Mombasa and a Kabarak outreach organized by Wikimedia Kenya.  I opted to go for the outreach rather than visit the goldmines with my peers because it so happens that visitors are the mines!

Our only efficient way to converse at Wikimedia Kenya is via our mailing list, to say less. Three of the members volunteered their time, money (which shall be reimbursed) and other treats they usually have for the weekend to undertake this well-intentioned option at Kabarak. For some it was their first time to Nakuru and that was a reminiscent trip but fortunately for me it was my 100^th time there but this time for a praiseworthy course. After a three hour drive we finally arrived at Nakuru the home of flamingoes. One of us checked into his hotel room at Eros Hotel whereas some of us spent the night at our friends’ to reduce the costs somehow and probably talk to them about Wikimedia too. We soared up into action at 7am on Saturday now that our mission was still a few kilometers away. So we boarded the popular matatus and after 30 minutes or so I saw the sign post Kabarak University which made me feel “mission accomplished! “ 

At Kabarak we were given a whole-hearted welcome  because we were the first guests to arrive and we had free knowledge with us. We were shown into the auditorium and specifically to the guests of honor seats at the front. 



We then went to set up our booth outside with the swag that included ‘’wiki-Earrings’.

steve expounding some points to Kabarak Students.

Our two banners and our laptops to register new members, show them the WFS and for the interested, how to edit. Little had we set-up our table than we were called back into the auditorium to give the presentation, we (Chris and Steve) took our seats as Abbas took to the podium.

Abbas giving a dose of  Wikimedia Foundation.

 The presentation impeccably suited the theme of the day and most notably almost everyone in the amphitheater went to the twitter feed Wikimediaatwork. 

The university expressed interest through their lecturer to have a students wikipedia club and even hold a Wikipedia takes Nakuru sometime in future.

At the climax of our visit we took team photoes with our brothers in FOSS from Mozilla-Kenya.

Wikimedia kenya and Mozilla Kenya Group photo, From left; Abbas,Timothy,Alex,Bosire,Hezzy,Chris,Victor,Cliff and stephen